Regional Schedule Announced

September 24, 2009

FIRST has updated their web site with the dates and locations of the 2010 regional competitions. Go here to see them all. In summary, Finger Lakes Regional in Rochester is week 1, WPI in Worcester and New York City are week 2, Connecticut is week 3, and Boston and Philadelphia are week 4. Be thinking about which ones you’d like the team to go to and be ready to talk about it at an upcoming meeting.

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Tolland Open House

September 11, 2009

There will be a RAGE open house at Tolland High School on Thursday, September 17 at 2:00 (after school). All Tolland High School students interested in learning more about RAGE and its robotics program are invited to attend. There will be a short presentation along with a working robot. It will be held in one of the tech classrooms. See the posters around the school or listen to morning announcements for information on which classroom.

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UConn Football Fundraisers

September 2, 2009

Once again football season is upon us. We have the same food booth and three beer booths to start. To staff the booths, we will need 26 people at each game. The food booth will need 12-14 people. Any student who is 16 years and older can help in the food booth. Beer booths will need 10-11 people. Anyone who is 18 and older can help check IDs at the beer booths. You do need to be 21 and older to serve the beer. The game dates can be found on the team calendar here on the site.

There have been some changes this year as to where we park and the passes we receive. Parking has changed to the area by parking lot B.  For those who have been doing this for some years, it is located down the runway and to the left of parking lot B. It is where we used to park. We need to check on parking passes. The second change is we will have permanent vendor passes for the season. If you are working all the games, you will be given one pass for the whole season. If you are only working a couple of the games, you will be given a pass and you are to hand it in before you leave so it can be given to someone else for the other games.

Most games start at noon, with gates opening at 10:30. We need everyone at the field by 9:00 a.m.

This is the largest fundraising event that we do. Last year we raised over $12,000 over six games. Of that, 60% went to the students and adults that worked the booths and 40% went back to the team to cover expenses of building the robot. Please consider getting as many friends, co-workers, and family members to help out at the games as you can.  Last year if you worked all six game you raised $261 for yourself.  We had families who raised close to $1,000 toward their travel expenses. You too can do the same.

Please e-mail Jenn if you can help. There will also be a signup sheet at the facility. We need to know by Sept 9  who we have to work the booths for the first game on Sept 12.

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